In Russia, students are forced to sign consent for early conscription.
As a result, military registration and enlistment offices will be able to call them up in April, and not in the summer, when the training ends. This is reported by the Russian edition of “Nimage” with reference to the data of the human rights organization “School of conscript”.
The military, in cooperation with college administrations, demanded that graduate students write applications for early passage of the medical commission and the meeting of the draft board, the newspaper notes. — Messages come from regions all over Russia.
Under Russian law, students receive a deferment from conscription until graduation, but since 2021, military registration and enlistment offices have begun to convince young people to be drafted. They also resorted to this tactic on the eve of the spring conscription in 2023, human rights activists say.
They deceive the heads of eighteen-year-olds, who, of course, do not understand the legal consequences of such statements. Under various pretexts, with the help of persuasion and threats, they are forced to sign statements,” said human rights activist Alexei Tabalov in a commentary to the publication.
Also, military registration and enlistment offices agree with the leadership of colleges that the students who signed such applications will pass the exams ahead of schedule. Then the students receive a summons with the obligation to appear at the military registration and enlistment office, where they undergo a medical examination and go to the army.
The servicemen want to start conscripting such students as early as April 1, when the spring conscription begins, so as not to wait for the summer and graduation, the human rights activist is sure.
The fact that the military commissariats have already become interested in graduate students is reported by the human rights project “Go through the forest”. According to them, meetings with military commissars are arranged in Moscow universities and colleges, at which students are given subpoenas with the obligation to come with a passport and registration certificate.
Messages started coming in on Monday. Students said that they were gathered in assembly halls to meet with representatives of the military registration and enlistment offices. Those from Moscow were immediately handed summons. The rest were released,” human rights activists said.
Source: “Layout”
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